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Compliance, the mischiefs of base compliance, iii. 468. how avoided, v. 579. Computation, ancient manners, and original hereof, iv. 460. Confession, auricular confession, vii. 295.

Confirmation of magistrates belongs not to the pope, vii.

577Conscience, a good conscience,

the excellence thereof, and how attained, i. 7, 52. v. 410. benefits thereof, ii. 484. iii. 96, 425, 430, 454. the excellence of it to content, ii. 508, &c. the great support of society, i. 423.

the methods some use to delude it, iii. 1oo. depraved by customary sin, 111.

preferred by heathens before honour, iii. 480. a scrupulous conscience, 318.

best satisfied by Chris

tian religion, v. 83.

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Consideration, iv. 141. Constantine, M. his judgment of Eusebius, vii. 181. No general synod before his reign, 395. Consubstantialists, v. 505. Content, to be found in religion, i. 59.

how in ancient times determined, vii. 242, 314, 567, 647.

Conversation, rules for it, iii.

415, &c. Covetousness, a cause of selflove, ii. 39. the sin and mischiefs thereof, ii. 190. how avoided, iii. 33.

an enemy to Christian religion, iv. 241. springs from infidelity, 250. Council of Trent, their false no

tions of justifying faith, iv. 350. their character, vii. 3. enjoined the pope's supremacy should not be disputed, 38. Councils, their authority above the pope's, vii. 51. their infallibility, why pretended, 295.

general, which so esteemed, vii. 402. first called by the emperors, ibid. when first celebrated, 395. use of them proves not there was unity of government in the primitive church, 682. the proper occasion of general councils assigned, 683. Creation, the order and beauty

thereof, iv. 575, &c. manner and reason of it, 581. Credulity and incredulity compared, iv. 484. the former less dangerous, ibid.

Creed, the Apostles', a large and full Exposition of it, vi. 71569.

Contentedness, from faith, iv. Cross of Christ; vide Christ's

312, 514. Contentment, ii. 403. the acts wherein it consisteth, 407. how learnt, 429, 434, 436,

440, 501, 519. Contests and contentions, how to be managed, and who may interpose in them, i. 604. Controversies in the church,

sufferings.

Cup, in the sacrament, why withholden from the laity, vii.

295.

Custom and example, the vain pleas from them against religion, iii. 492.

in sin, the power and remedy, iii. 91, &c.

Custom of sinning, the authority and mischiefs thereof, iv. 245, 432.

Customs, innocent customs of the place where we live to be observed, ii. 131, &c. Cyprian's, St., account of St. Peter's primacy of order, vii. 66. his Epistle concerning the deposing Marcianus examin

ed, 505.

Cyril of Jerusalem, the first, according to Socrates, who did introduce appeals, vii. 536.

's, St., supplying the place of P. Celestine in the general council, vii. 416.

D. Damasus, (pope,) an Epistle of his in Theodoret (whence Bellarmine's pretence for the pope's supremacy) adjudged spurious, vii. 335. Dealings, God's dealings with men shew his justice; and the influences consideration thereof should have on them, iii. 576.

Death, Christ's death, nature thereof, v. 384, &c.

iii. 74.

the wisdom in contemplation thereof, to philosophers, iii. 97.

of friends, how borne,

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iii. 423.

public and private,

an excellent instrument of contentment, ii. 512. Discipline, church discipline, iii. 316. vii. 651. main form thereof not to be violated, 652.

and order of the primitive church, vii. 452.

the enacting and dispensing with ecclesiastical laws about the same, belonged of old to emperors, vii. 459.

benefits thereof, ii. 475. Dispensations, vii. 393. the
pope no power to grant them,
579, 603.
Disputes, when most abounding
in the church, iv. 362.
Dissensions, the mischiefs arising
from them, vii. 375, 387. the
profits accruing from hence
to the Romanists, 388.
how reconciled a-
mong
Christians, vii. 688.
Dominion, who have titles to it,

ii. 452.

after death, probably no remembrance of things in this life, iii. 66. Decalogue, for whom primarily instituted, vi. 473. obligation thereof on Christians, 476.

a large Exposition of

it, vi. 473-539. Decrees of popes, when contested against the ancient canons, vii. 435. whence their new

v. 272. Dreams, iv. 480.

E.

Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, not impugned by disclaiming St. Peter's superiority, vii. 81.

orders, their dis

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Empires ruined by neglect of religion, iii. 494. -their original and in

crease, vii. 373. Employment, honest employment an instrument to con. tent, ii. 516.

Emulation, power thereof to excite to virtue, ii. 353. Enchantments, v. 213. Endeavours (our own) necessary to happiness, ii. 385. iii. 149. Enemies, love of them required, ii. 137. arguments to love them from Christ's sufferings, v. 373.

of Christian religion, who and how conquered, iv. 283. Envy, fear of being envied for being religious. The mischief and absurdity, iii. 474.

opposite to Christian religion, iv. 242. Epicureans, false principles of theirs refuted, i. 61. Epicurus, his opinion of bestowing benefits, ii. 141. his opinion of the production of man, iv. 422. Episcopacy, the ends assigned

of that order, vii. 182. Error, the mischiefs of it, i. 3. Eucharist, the, vi. 566. Events, their strangeness, seasonableness, suddenness, &c. arguments of a special divine providence, i. 296, 297. Evil-speaking, i. 449. Eusebius, Constantine M. his

character of him, vii. 181. Eutychians, their heresy of

Christ's human nature converted into his divinity, confuted by Christ's ascension,

v. 504. Example, not to imitate good example the greatest ingratitude, i. 341.

human, the imperfec

tion of, ii. 369.

of Christ to be imi

tated, ii. 315, 331, 334, 359, 362, 367. iv. 79.

the power of, iii. 442,

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degree somewhere exist doth probably otherwhere exist in higher perfections, iv. 427.

F. Faith in God and Christ, ii. 342. an effectual means of joy and content, 561.

nature thereof, iii. 267. iv. 255. the power, 83.

, the power, reasonableness, and benefits of it, iv. 252, 297. objections against it with answers to them, 253, 254. the value thereof as implying divine knowledge, 256. faith and a good conscience inseparable, 240. faith and works conjoined, 249, 318. faith gives clear and certain knowledge, 259. faith without reason impossible, 267. implies a good use of reason, 262. and compliance with the providence and grace of God, 268.

the original and increase thereof, iv. 269. proceeds from sincerity and soundness of judgment, 277. is increased by diligence and attention, 276. and by resolution, 283. is voluntary, 289. the dangerous mistakes about faith, ibid. the ancients' description of it, 290. the ef fects and influences of faith, 299. faith previous to pardon, 350. examples of its power, 335, &c. increased from consideration of Christ's sufferings, v. 368. and resurrection, &c. 474.

and hope in God, whence wrought in us, v. 410.

unity of the church preserved by it, vii. 635. Father, the import of the name

when attributed to God, vi. 450. on what grounds the title of Father attributed to

God, iv. 495. and what influence it ought to have on us, 496. Fathers, what regard to be given to their account of St. Peter's primacy of order, or bare dignity, vii. 66.

a censure of their writings, vii. 151. Bellarmine's account of the same, ibid. the latter Fathers' most guilty expressions, vii. 152.

a character of their writings, vii. 250. Fear of God promoted by belief of his providence, i. 304. the duty and obligation to the same, iii. 511.

; the prejudice to religion from base fear, iii. 468, 504. God the special object of fear, iii. 473.

a cause of infidelity, iv. 238. power thereof, v. 520. Feed my sheep; the Romish interpretation rejected, and the true established, vii. 254. Festivals, (Jewish and Christian,) their commemoration and correspondence, iv. 157. the proper business on festivals, 98. Fidelity, the manifold mischiefs arising from the contempt of it, iv. 247. Flattery, the sin, mischief, and remedy, iii. 14. Flood, sending thereof, the good

ness of God therein, iii. 534Forgiveness of sins, vi. 419. Fortune, her pretended power disclaimed.

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Ghost, gift of the Holy Ghost, iv. 156. nature and benefits thereof, 159.

Glosses of the Romanists on scripture, vii. 147. their corruptions and partiality hereiv, 151. Gnostic heresy concerning two Gods, iv. 573

God, what notions to have of his perfections, i. 95. how to be worshipped, 96, &c. our great obligation to him, 199. not peremptorily to conclude concerning the determinate reasons of his actions, 331.

the benefits of having right conceptions of him, iv. 273, 274. these represented by Christian religion, 459, 463. his existence proved from the frame of the world, 391. and of human nature, 418. from universal consent, 444. from supernatural effects, 471. from belief of a future judgment, 490. his works unsearchable, 414. his eternity, immutability, &c. 469. proved from the making and governing the world, 470. his unity declared from that harmony which is in the world, and from the common suffrage of mankind, 467. plurality of gods among the philosophers, how to be understood, 469.

names of him, their import, iv. 522. God's attributes, iii. 250, 521. obligations for duty to him. thence, ii. 398.

omniscience, an high argument to sincerity, iii. 95. a great preservative against all sin, 38.

Godliness, the profitableness thereof, i. 23-80.

Goodness of God, that attribute

proved and applied, iii. 514. et in seq. 546. Gospel, some nations being in ignorance thereof, no argument against a divine provideuce, or universal redemption, iv. 28, 60.

doctrine thereof, and benefits made void by infidelity, iv. 225.

the unjust prejudices against it, iv. 230.

tenor thereof, iv. 369. perfection of it, v. 126. Government, supported by religion, i. 339. also maintained by the decent circumstances which attend it, 334. civil government destroyed by atheists, iv. 247. Vide Societies. Grace, danger in abuse thereof by delay of repentance, iii. 117. of God, iv. 42. communication

and effects thereof in heathens, iv.

48.

previous dispositions required to the receiving thereof, iv. 68.

when a person is in a state of grace, iv. 91.

falling from it, iv. 353. Gratitude, learnt from Christ's sufferings, v. 367. Gregory, M. his character and authority against the pope, vii. 258.

Grief and pain, iv. 578.
H.
Hades, interpretation thereof,
v. 416, &c.
Hamakom, a name applied to
God by the Jewish doctors,

iv. 533. Happiness attained by religion, i. 68. hope of, 4.

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future happiness, de

grees thereof, iii. 127.

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